The UK Welcomes Back Gmail May 4th, 2010
It’s been 5 seemingly long years, but now finally it looks as though us UK users are going to be joining the rest of the emailing world by being able to convert our email addresses to use the gmail.com domain instead of the much longer and somewhat fake sounding googlemail.com domain for our email addresses. Google have finally settled a five year trademark dispute with Independent International Investment Research over the use of the Gmail name which started back in 2004.
Google software engineer Greg Bullock has written in the company blog that the changes will start rolling out over the next week, allowing users a choice of changing to gmail.com or keeping the existing googlemail.com
“Since ‘gmail’ is 50% fewer characters than ‘googlemail’, we estimate this name change will save approximately 60 million keystrokes a day. At about 217 micro joules per keystroke, that’s about the energy of 20 bonbons saved every day!”
I wonder how many users will make the change given that it will potentially mean having to have stationary reprinted etc. but still, i think it’ll be a welcome change as gmail.com sounds so much nicer regardless of how many bonbons it saves!
Tags: google, googlemail, Mail
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